Game apparatus.



P. P. AU BUCHON. GAME APPARATUS. APPLICATION FILED MAY 15, 1914.

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panying drawing forming a part of PERRY PETER AU BUCHON, OF ST., LOUIS, MISSOURI.

GAME APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 27, 1914.

Application filed Kay 15, 1914. Serial No. 838,843.

I '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PERRY P. AU BUcHoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Game Apparatus, of which the the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in game apparatus in which a specially designed checker board adapted to be played on by two or more players at the same time is used.

It consists in a novel arrangement of the checkered spaces on the board and in the character and movement of the pieces to be played thereon, as hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accolrlnt is specification, whereon Figure 1, is a top plan of my improved game board and playing devices thereon, and Fig. 2, a similar view to Fig. 1, showing amodification of the board.

Like letters and numerals of reference denote like parts in both figures.

Referring princi ally to Fig. 1 a represents my improved game board which is preferably, circular-shaped, having at preferably, two opposite parts respectively of its circumference a suitably shaped projecting portion 5 which is intersected by the center line 1, 1, of the board a and adapted to form the starting point or space for a certain movable piece or device as, hereinafter referred to as queen bee placed thereon, the queen bee w in the present case being preferably, colored black at the top side and white at the bottom side of the board a as shown.

On the board a is a preferably central circular space a which is defined by a circular line 2, and concentric with the space 0 is a series of successive annular zones 03 which are separated from each other by circular lines 3, each zone d being divided circularly into alternating dark and light colored,preferably black and white spaces 5, 5, respectively, by lines 4 which extend across the series of zones 0! radially to the center space 0, the spaces 5, 5, of each zone (i also alternating with those of the adjoining zone d,- that is to say, the black and white spaces 5, 5, throughout the series of zones 01 connect respectively with each other diagonally or corner-wise from the boundary line 2 of the central space a to the boundary line 3 of the outermost zone cl and vice versa.

Within the central space 0, at opposite parts respectively, of its boundary line 2, is a space 0 which is intersected by the center line 1, 1, of the board a and. opposite to the corresponding starting space 6-, the space 6 being adapted to form the objective point or goal, hereinafter referred to as hive, of the queen bee w.

M It is here noted that thestarting space I) at each side of the board a'is so arranged as to span the middle white space 5' of the outermost zone d and connect corner-wise with the adjoining black space 5, at each side of the center line 1, 1, and that the corresponding hive e connects directly with the mlddle black space 5, of the inner zone d, whereby, in the progress of the game, the queen bee m can be moved from its starting point onto the black space 5 at the right or left of the center line 1, 1, and on reaching the inner zone cl, after making a complete c rcuit of the board a, as hereinafter particularly referred to, can be moved from the middle black space 5 of the said zone on to the hivere.

On the middle black spaces 5 intersected by the center line 1, 1, of the board a, and on a suitable and uniform number of the adjoining black spaces 5 at each side of the said line, is respectively placed a movable piece 3 hereinafter referred to as bee, the bees y at the top side of the board a being preferably, in the present case, colored blue,

and at the bottom side colored red as shown.

The number of bees used and placed on the black spaces 5 between the starting point t b and hive e at each side of the board a is in the present case, preferably ten, but a greater or less number may be used as found desirable; also, the bees y in lieu of being colored blue and red as described may be otherwise colored or distinguishably marked.

In o oration, assuming the game to be played by two players with the queen bees a: and bees y initially arranged as shown and described, and that one of the players, say at the top side of the board a moves a blue bee y at the right of the center line 1, 1, diagonally On to an adjoining vacant black space 5 in the direction of the opponents pieces at the bottom side of the board a, the opponent responds thereto by moving a red bee on to a vacant black space 5 in the opposite direction, similar movements of the bees y being continued until the queen bee w of each player can be moved on to the resulting vacant black space 5 adjoining the starting point or space b at the right of the center line 1, 1, and so on, the game being played in a similar manner to the ordinary game of checkers with this difference that, according to my invention the ame is won by the player who, first succee s in moving a single piece, to wit, the queen bee w, from its startmg point or space I) with the cooperation of the bees 3 through a complete circuit of the board a against the moves of the opponents pieces, to the corresponding goal or hive e on the winning side of the board a.

It is here noted that, in playing the game on the principle of my invention as above described, the queen bee a; and bees y of either player may be moved to the right or left of the starting point I) as desired and ma be reversed at any point of the game.

y my invention the game may be played by three or more players by multiplying the starting and objective points I) and e having the same relation to each other at other partsof the board a, as seen in Fig. 2 in which the board a is arranged to accommodate four players, the queen bees a: to the right and left of the board a of the two additional players, being preferably colored purple and orange, and the corresponding bees 3 green and yellow, respectively 'as shown.

I do not limit myself to the use of a air cular arrangement of the spaces 5, 5, around a circularsshaped central space 0 as described, it being obvious that the same principle and operation of the game may be of fected by arranging the checker spaces around, and on parallel lines to the sides of a square-shaped central space.

I claim- I 1. In a game apparatus, a game board having a central space marked thereon, a series of successive annular zones surrounding and concentric with the said space, each zone being divided by lines, radial to the said space, into alternate dark and light colored checker spaces, and the checker spaces of each zone alternating with those of the succeeding zone, a s ace exterior to the outer zone and intersecte by the center line of the board, the last named space being connected with the dark colored checker space adjoining the medial light colored checker space 0 the outer zone on each side of the sa1d line, and a space within the said central space intersected by the said line and connecting with the dark colored medial checker space of the inner zone.

2. In a game apparatus, a game board having a central space marked thereon, a series of successive annular zones surrounding and concentric with the said space, each zone being divided by lines, radial to the said space, into alternate dark and light colored checker spaces, and the checker spaces of each zone alternating with those of the succeedingzone, a space exterior to the outer zone and intersected by the center line of the board, the last named space being connected with the dark colored checker space adjoining the medial light colored checker space of the outer zone on each side of the said line, and adapted to form the starting place for a de vice movable therefrom on to either of the said adjoining dark colored. checker spaces, and a space within the said central space, connecting with the medial dark colored checker space of the inner zone intersected by the said line, and adapted to form the goal of the said device.

3. In a game apparatus, a game board having a central space marked thereon, a series of successive annular zones surrounding and concentric with the said space, each zone being divided by lines, radial to the said space, into alternate dark and light colored checker spaces, and the checker spaces of each zone alternating with those of the succeeding zone, a space exterior to the outer zone and intersected by the center line of the board, the last named space being connected with the dark colored checker space adj oining the medial light colored checker space of the outer zone-on each side of the said line, and adapted to form the-starting place for a device movable therefrom on'to either of the said adjoining dark colored checker spaces, a space within the said central space, connecting with the medial dark colored checker space of the inner zone intersected by the said line, and adapted to form the goal of the said device, and a plurality of movable pieces placed severally on the medial and adjacent dark colored checker spaces and cooperating with the said device in the operation of the game.

PERRY PETERAU BUCHON.

Witnesses: I

FRANK F. Fnrrrs, Gnoaon BREIDING. 

